GABA a receptors predict aversion-related brain responses: An fMRI-PET investigation in healthy humans

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1438-1450

  Hayes, Dave J ^a   Duncan, Niall W ^a,b   Wiebking, Christine ^a,c   Pietruska, Karin ^d   Qin, Pengmin ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Gagnon, Jean ^d   Bing, Paul Gravel ^e   Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^e   Kostikov, Alexey P ^e   Schirrmacher, Ralf ^e   Reader, Andrew J ^e   Doyon, Julien ^d   Rainville, Pierre ^d   Northoff, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

emotion; flumazenil; fMRI; human; perigenual anterior cingulate cortex; PET

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATOR; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCINTISCANNING; YOUNG ADULT; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879419209     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.40     Document Type: Article

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